Suspect in cold case murder and rape of Georgia woman arrested over 40 years later, GBI says
Sandra Davis was found strangled to death by a home in Waycross on Sept. 1, 1984. Georgia Bureau of Investigation | CBS
Over four decades after a Ware County woman was found strangled to death near a home in Waycross, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says they’ve made an arrest in the case.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that DNA testing helped them identify 68-year-old Freddie Lee Granger Jr. as the suspect in the murder and rape of 22-year-old Sandra Kaye Davis.
Authorities say on Sept. 1, 1984, officers with the Waycross Police Department found Davis’s body beside a home on Kollock Street. Investigators said that she had been strangled. With no suspect identified, the police department requested help from the GBI.
In the years since, officials say they have continued to follow leads and look for the truth behind Davis’s killing. Thanks to advances in DNA testing, authorities say they found their link.
Officers arrested Granger on Tuesday and charged him with rape, aggravated assault, malice murder, and two counts of felony murder. He remains in custody at the Ware County Jail.
The investigation remains ongoing. Authorities are asking anyone who may have any information about the case to call the GBI Regional Investigative Office in Douglas at (912) 389-4103 or submit an anonymous tip by calling 1-800-597-8477 or through the GBI website.
